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  2. USD Coin - Wikipedia

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    USDC regained its dollar peg four days later. [13] In August 2023, Circle and Coinbase dissolved the Centre Consortium, the entity responsible for managing USDC since 2018. This decision granted Circle full governance over USDC. [14] In February 2024, Circle discontinued USDC on the TRON blockchain following a risk management review. Although ...

  3. Fixed exchange rate system - Wikipedia

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    A fixed exchange rate, often called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency's value is fixed or pegged by a monetary authority against the value of another currency, a basket of other currencies, or another measure of value, such as gold or silver.

  4. Circle (company) - Wikipedia

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    In September 2018, Circle, along with Coinbase Global, [24] released a consortium called Centre, which launched digital USDC pegged to the dollar. [25] Centre was intended to serve as a platform for users to make deposits from traditional bank accounts and convert fiat currency into tokens.

  5. Locatable Address Conversion System - Wikipedia

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    Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) is a service offered by the United States Postal Service to update mailing addresses when a street is renamed or the address is updated for 911. In the case of 911, the address is changed from a rural route format to an urban/city route format.

  6. Currency substitution - Wikipedia

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    Currency substitution is the use of a foreign currency in parallel to or instead of a domestic currency. [1]Currency substitution can be full or partial. Full currency substitution can occur after a major economic crisis, such as in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe.

  7. Delivery point - Wikipedia

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    In a database, storing the ZIP+4 code in a 10 character field (with the hyphen) allows easy output in the address block, and storing the check digit in a 3-digit field (instead of calculating it) allows automatic checking of the validity of the ZIP+4 and delivery point fields in case one had been changed independently.

  8. Stablecoin - Wikipedia

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    Their value is pegged to one or more currencies (most commonly the US dollar, the euro, and the Swiss franc) in a fixed ratio; The value connection is realized off- chain through banks or other types of regulated financial institutions which serve as depositaries of the currency used to back the stablecoin;

  9. Binary Synchronous Communications - Wikipedia

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    Binary Synchronous Communication (BSC or Bisync) is an IBM character-oriented, half-duplex link protocol, announced in 1967 after the introduction of System/360. It replaced the synchronous transmit-receive (STR) protocol used with second generation computers. The intent was that common link management rules could be used with three different ...